Engineering Manager, Product

The role

This person will act as a hands-on technical and people leader to build the Product Engineering team. You will work on product surfaces including Voices, Voice Agents, self-serve growth, billing, and shared product infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build alongside the team and contribute directly to product and technical work.
• Lead and develop product engineers through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Grow the Product Engineering team by sourcing, interviewing, and closing engineers.
• Partner with Product and Design to shape products and make technical tradeoffs.
• Establish a predictable execution cadence.
• Raise the quality bar through hands-on design and code review.
• Take ownership of neglected or cross-cutting surfaces like billing and files.
• Help define how Product Engineering evolves as the team grows.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of product engineering experience, including experience leading or managing engineers at a company with a high product bar.
• Strong current technical ability to contribute to architecture, design reviews, debugging, and production-quality code.
• Experience building polished, customer-facing product surfaces.
• Track record of coaching engineers, giving feedback, and handling performance issues.
• Evidence of leading through context, judgment, and contribution.
• Strong cross-functional instincts working with Product and Design.
• Track record of hiring strong product engineers.
• Comfort moving between visible product work and foundations such as billing, files, and on-call health.
• Ability to operate with urgency and clarity in a fast-moving environment.
• Genuine excitement about voice AI and building the product layer on top of state-of-the-art models.

Nice to have

• Experience in developer tools, AI infrastructure, or products built for technical users.
• Experience helping grow a product engineering team from roughly 5 to 15 engineers while remaining hands-on.
• Experience with PLG, self-serve growth, billing, or other end-to-end product surfaces.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Attractive equity package
• Fully covered medical insurance, dental and vision for you and your family
• 9 weeks paternity leave
• 12 weeks maternity leave
• 401(k)
• Monthly commuter stipend
• Flexible PTO
• Daily lunch, dinner and snacks
• Your own personal Yoshi

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is provided on a case-by-case basis and is not guaranteed.
• Cartesia participates in E-Verify and will provide Form I-9 information to confirm employment eligibility after hire.

About the company

Cartesia aims to architect AI that learns from and interacts with the world like humans do. The founding team includes PhDs from the Stanford AI Lab who invented State Space Models.